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In all but one state in the U.S. where MAID is legal, a terminally ill patient must be a resident of the state in order to qualify. The exception is Oregon, where a court earlier this year ruled the residency requirement is unconstitutional.
The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals. It has just launched the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death. The Commission writes: “Our relationship with death and dying has become unbalanced, and we advocate a rebalancing. At the core of this rebalancing must be relationships and partnerships between people who are dying, families, communities, health and social care systems, and wider civic society.